Incarceration and Prison Society

Chapter 11

Classification

The process of assigning an inmate to a category specifying his/her needs for security, treatment, education, work assignment, and readiness for release.

Custodial Model

A model of incarceration that emphasizes security, discipline, and order.

Inmate code

The values and norms of the prison social system that define the inmates idea of a model prison.

Rehabilitation Model

A model of incarceration that emphasizes treatment programs to help prisoners address the personal problems and issues that led them to commit the crime.

Reintegration Model

A model of a correctional institution that emphasizes maintaining the offenders ties to family and community as a method of reform.

Prisoner adaptive roles

Doing time, gleaning, jailing, disorganized criminal.

Doing Time

inmates who view their time as brief, an inevitable break in their criminal career, an a cost for doing the business.

Gleaning

Inmates who try to take advantage of the prison programs to better themselves and improve their prospects for success after release.

Jailing

The choice of those who cut themselves off from the outside and try to construct a life within the prison.

Disorganized criminal

a criminal who can't adapt to the 3 orientations.

Minimum security

Low risk victims, no walls/fences, low staff-to-inmate ratio

Medium security

Fencing, typically cell housing, higher staff-to-inmate ratio, possibly violent offenders but still low risk.

Maximum security

Walls/fences, cell housing, heist staff-to-inmate ratio, control of inmate movement, high risk inmates.

Administrative Segregation

Solitary confinement for violent or disruptive behavior.

Protective custody

Offers only way to escape abuse.

"Supermax" prisons

"control unit";most secure prison unit.